Engineering:List of research vessels by country

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Research vessels by country include:

Algeria

  • RV Belkacem Grine (2010)[1]

Angola

Argentina

File:Rompehielos argentinos ARA Almirante Irizar en la Antártida-1.jpg
ARA Almirante Irízar

Australia

RSV Nuyina
File:CSIRO ScienceImage 2363 RV Investigator side view.jpg
RV Investigator
HMAS Leeuwin (A 245)
  • RSV Nuyina
  • Aurora Australis
  • RV Franklin
  • RV Investigator
  • HMAS Cook (1973-1998)
  • Nella Dan
  • Southern Surveyor
  • RV Solander
  • RV Cape Ferguson

Survey vessels

Bangladesh

File:RV Meen Shandhani fisheries survey vessel Bangladesh.jpg
RV Meen Shandhani in 2016
  • RV Meen Shandhani (2016)[5]
  • CVASU Research Vessel

Belgium (EU)

File:Simon Stevin (Zeebrugge).jpg
RV Simon Stevin
  • RV Belgica (transferred to Ukraine, now RV Borys Aleksandrov)
  • RV Zeeleeuw
  • RV Simon Stevin

Bermuda

Brazil

RV Alpha Crucis
  • RV Professor W. Besnard (1967-2008)
  • RV Atlântico Sul (1973)[6]
  • RV Alpha Crucis (2012)[7]
  • BNS H21 Sirius
  • BNS H35 Amorim do Valle
  • BNS H36 Taurus
  • BNS H37 Garnier Sampaio
  • BNS H38 Cruzeiro do Sul
  • BNS H40 Antares

Bulgaria (EU)

Sv. Sv. Kiril i Metodii RSV 421

Canada

RV Coriolis II
CCGS Amundsen
File:CCGS Capt. Jacques Cartier.jpg
CCGS Capt. Jacques Cartier
  • RV Coriolis II

Canadian Coast Guard

Parks Canada

  • RV David Thompson (1992)
  • Gwaii Haanas II[10]

University of Victoria

  • RV John Strickland[11]

Government of Nunavut

Qikiqtaaluk Corporation

Survey vessels

Cape Verde

  • RV Islândia (donated by Iceland in 1994)[15]

Chile

File:2019-03-19 CNS CABO DE HORNOS (AGS-61) - IMO 9495351.jpg
CNS Cabo de Hornos

China

File:202404 Xuelong-2 in Hong Kong.jpg
Xue Long 2

Colombia

File:ARC Simón Bolívar, Buenaventura Zarpe del Buque Colombiano, 2023-12-14 - (1) 05.jpg
ARC Simón Bolívar
  • ARC Providencia[16]
  • ARC Malpelo[17]
  • ARC Quindio[18]
  • ARC Caribe
  • ARC Roncador
  • ARC Simon Bolivar[19]
  • BI Ancón

Cook Islands

File:Anuanua Moana July 2023 - B.jpg
Anuanua Moana
  • Anuanua Moana (2023)

Croatia (EU)

Survey vessels

Czechia (EU)

RV Clione

University of South Bohemia

Czech Academy of Sciences

Denmark (EU)

Dana (IV)

See also List of Danish research ships, which includes ships used only for expeditions

  • Aurora (2014)
  • Biologen (1932-1964)
  • Dana I (1920-1922)
  • Dana II (1921-1935)
  • Dana III (1937-1980)
  • Dana IV (1981)
  • Dana V (expected in 2027)[27]
  • Sallingsund (1899-1932)
  • Thor (1902-1919)

Faroe Islands

  • RV Jákup Sverri (2020)

Greenland

  • RV Sanna (2012)[28]
  • RV Tarajoq (2021)[28]

Egypt

National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries

Estonia (EU)

File:Salme at Quay B in Lennusadam Tallinn 30 January 2015.JPG
RV Salme

Tallinn University of Technology

University of Tartu

Estonian Maritime Museum

Finland (EU)

File:Ss Aranda.jpg
Aranda
  • Aranda (1953-1989)
  • Aranda (1989)
  • Muikku
  • Aurelia
  • Seili I
  • Seili II
  • Geomari
  • Kaiku
  • Saduria

France (EU)

RV Pourquoi Pas?
File:L'Astrolabe e Konk-Kerne 01.jpg
L'Astrolabe
File:Navire océanographique Tethys II (Ifremer 00735-84726 - 40564).jpg
Téthys II
French Navy survey ship A758 Beautemps-Beaupré.
Tara
File:Tara Polar Station.jpg
Tara Polar Station (2025)

CNRS

Ifremer

French Ministry of Culture

  • Alfred Merlin (2021)[45]

Cousteau Society

Tara Ocean Foundation

Des Requins et des Hommes

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

  • L'Astrolabe (1986-2017)
  • L'Astrolabe (2016)

Survey vessels

Germany (EU)

RV Polarstern
RV Atair
RV Maria S. Merian
Research ship Planet
RV Sonne
  • FRV Capella (2004)
  • FRV Clupea (2012)
  • FRV Deneb (1994)
  • FRV Komet (1998)
  • FRV Solea (2004)
  • FRV Walther Herwig III (1993)
  • FRV Wega (1990)
  • RV Haithabu (2014)
  • RV Ludwig Prandtl (1983)
  • RV Meteor (1924-1945)
  • RV Meteor (1964)
  • RV Senckenberg
  • RV Sonne (1978-2014; sold to Argentina; now ARA Austral)
  • RV Valdivia

German Navy

  • Planet (2005)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

  • RV Meteor (1986)
  • RV Sonne (2014)

Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency

  • RV Atair (2021)

Alfred Wegener Institute

  • RV Uthörn (1947)
  • RV Uthörn (1982)
  • RV Mya (replaced by Mya II)
  • RV Polarstern (1982)
  • RV Heincke (1990)
  • RV Mya II (2013)

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

GEOMAR Kiel

  • RV Südfall (1946 – 1966; 1958 renamed RV Hermann Wattenberg)
  • RV Alkor (1966-1990)
  • Sagitta (1966-1997)
  • RV Littorina (1975)
  • RV Poseidon (1976-2020; sold to Sea-Watch, now Humanity 1)
  • RV Alkor (1990)
  • Polarfuchs (1997)

Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

  • RV Eugen Seibold (2018)

Greece (EU)

File:20070927-Piraeus-RV Aegaeo.jpg
RV Aegaeo
  • RV Aegaeo
  • RV Philia

Survey vessels

  • HS Naftilos (A-478)
  • HS Pytheas (A-474)
  • HS Strabon (A-476)

Iceland

Marine and Freshwater Research Institute

India

File:Sagar-nidhi ORV.jpg
ORV Sagar Nidhi
File:INS Sagardhwani (A74) at sea.jpg
INS Sagardhwani

Survey vessels

  • INS Mesh (J34)
  • INS Sandhayak (J18) (1981-2021)
  • INS Nirdeshak (J19) (1982-2014)
  • INS Nirupak (J20) (1985-2024)
  • INS Investigator (J15) (1990)
  • INS Jamuna (J16) (1991)
  • INS Sutlej (J17) (1993)
  • INS Darshak (J21) (2001)
  • INS Sarvekshak (J22) (2002)
  • INS Makar (J31) (2012)
  • INS Sandhayak (J18) (2024)

Indonesia

File:Geomarin III at ceremonial launch.jpg
Geomarin III

National Research and Innovation Agency

Indonesian Navy

  • KRI Rigel (2015)
  • KRI Spica (2015)
  • KRI Dewa Kembar
  • KRI Pollux
  • KAL Aries
  • KAL Vega

Iran

Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science

  • Khalije Fars sea explorer (2017)

Ireland (EU)

RV Celtic Explorer

Italy (EU)

File:RRS Ernest Shackleton BB.jpg
RRS Ernest Shackleton, now RV Laura Bassi
RV Alliance
File:Elettra A5340.jpg
RV Elettra
  • RV Andrea
  • RV Astrea
  • RV Cerruti
  • RV Dallaporta
  • RV Furetto
  • Gaia Blu
  • RV Italica
  • RV Laura Bassi
  • RV Luigi Sanzo
  • RV Maria Grazia
  • RV Minerva Uno
  • RV OGS Explora[62]
  • RV Regione Lazio 1
  • RV Tecnopesca II
  • RV Trer
  • RV Andromeda
  • RV Futura
  • RV Cormorano II

Italian Navy

  • RV Alliance A 5345 (NATO vessel, since 1 January 2016 under Italian Navy flag)
  • RV Leonardo A 5301 (NATO vessel, since 11 May 2007 under Italian government flag and since 14 May 2010 under Italian Navy flag)
  • RV Ammiraglio Magnaghi A 5303
  • RV Aretusa A 5304
  • RV Elettra A 5340
  • RV Galatea A 5308
  • RV Vincenzo Martellotta A 5320
  • RV Raffaele Rossetti A 5315

Japan

Chikyū
Shirase
  • RV Chikyū
  • RV Hakurei Maru
  • RV Hakuho Maru
  • RV Kaimei[63]
  • RV Kairei
  • RV Kaiyo
  • RV Mirai (formerly, Mutsu)
  • RV Natsushima
  • RV Shigen (formerly, RV Ramform Victory of Petroleum Geo-Services)
  • RV Umitaka Maru
  • RV Yokosuka
  • RV Nisshin Maru

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

  • Shirase
  • JS Suma (AGS-5103)
  • JS Wakasa (AGS-5104)
  • AGS Shōnan
  • AGS Nichinan
  • AGS Futami

Republic of Korea

File:Araon Hobart 20171120-041.jpg
RV Araon

Korea Polar Research Institute

  • RV Araon (2009)

Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology

Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources

Survey vessels

  • ROKS Sincheonji
  • ROKS Sinsegi

Kazakhstan

  • Kanysh Satpayev (2014)

Survey vessels

  • Jaiyq (2008)

Latvia (EU)

Maritime Administration of Latvia

  • Kristiāns Dāls (2001)[73]
  • Sonārs (2014)[73]
  • Blesser 505 WA[73]

Lebanon

Lithuania (EU)

Ministry of Environment

  • Vėjūnas (2012)[75]

Klaipėda University

Luxembourg (EU)

GEOxyz

  • GEO OCEAN III to GEO OCEAN IX[78]
  • GEOSURVEYOR I, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XVI, XVII, XXI[78]

Mauritania

  • RV Almoravide
  • RV N´diago
  • RV Al Awam
  • RV Amrigue

Morocco

National Institute of Fisheries Research

Royal Moroccan Navy

  • Dar Al Beida (2019)[82]

Namibia

Netherlands (EU)

RV Pelagia
  • RV Tyro (1979-1993)
  • RV Pelagia
  • RV Navicula
  • RV Stern
  • RV Tridens
  • RV Isis

Survey vessels

New Zealand

File:RV Tangaroa.jpg
RV Tangaroa

Survey vessels

Nigeria

Nigerian Navy

  • NNS Lana (2021)[88]
  • NNS Zhizoko (2024)[89]

Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research

Norway

File:RV Haakon Mosby LYR.jpg
RV Håkon Mosby
  • RV G.M. Dannevig
  • RV Johan Hjort
  • RV Helmer Hanssen (Jan Mayen)
  • RV Håkon Mosby
  • RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen
  • RV Kronprins Haakon (2018)
  • RV Johan Ruud
  • RV G.O. Sars
  • RV Trygve Braarud
  • RV Bjørn Føyn
  • RV Lance
  • RV Gunnerus

Oman

Pakistan

  • PNS Behr Paima

Peru

BIC Humboldt

Philippines

  • BRP Fort San Antonio (AM-700)
  • BRP Fort Abad (AM-701)
  • MV DA BFAR
  • BRP Gregorio Velasquez (AGR 702)

Poland (EU)

File:MS Horyzont II Isbjornhamna-1.jpg
MS Horyzont II
File:RV Oceania.jpg
RV Oceania
File:RV Kaszubski Brzeg RB1.JPG
RV Kaszubski Brzeg
  • RV Birkut (retired)
  • RV Doktor Lubecki (retired)
  • RV Hydromet (retired)
  • ORP Planeta (retired)
  • RV Pomorzanin (retired)
  • RV Professor Bogucki (retired)
  • RV Wieczno (retired)
  • ORP Zodiak (retired)

Polish Academy of Sciences

National Marine Fisheries Research Institute

  • RV Ewa (1928-1939)
  • RV Profesor Siedlecki (1974-1992)
  • RV Baltica (1993)[94]

University of Gdańsk

  • RV Oceanograf 1
  • RV Oceanograf 2

Gdynia Maritime University

  • MS Horyzont II
  • RV IMOR

Maritime University of Szczecin

  • MS Nawigator XXI

National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk

  • RV Kaszubski Brzeg (1984-2007)

Survey vessels

Portugal (EU)

File:A522+e+A523 (21054188913).jpg
NRP Dom Carlos I & NRP Almirante Gago Coutinho

Portuguese Navy

  • NRP Dom Carlos I
  • NRP Almirante Gago Coutinho
  • NRP Andrómeda
  • NRP Auriga
  • NRP Almeida Carvalho (1972-2002)

Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere

  • NI Mário Ruivo
  • NI Noruega
  • NI Diplodus
  • NI Tellina (2003-2019)
  • NI Capricórnio (1994-2008)

University of Azores

  • NI Arquipélago

Romania (EU)

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

  • RV Thuwal II (2026)[99]

Senegal

Soviet Union/Russia

RV Akademik Ioffe
RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh
RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov
RV Kapitan Dranitsyn

Source:[102][103]

  • RV Akademik A. Karpinsky (1984)
  • RV Akademik Boris Petrov
  • RV Akademik Fersman
  • RV Akademik Fyodorov (1987)
  • RV Akademik Ioffe
  • RV Akademik Lazarev
  • RV Akademik M.A.Lavrentyev
  • RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh (1981)
  • RV Akademik Nemchinov
  • RV Akademik Nikolay Strakhov
  • RV Akademik Oparin
  • RV Akademik Sergey Vavilov (1988)
  • RV Akademik Shatskiy
  • RV Akademik Shokalskiy (1982)
  • RV Alexey Maryshev
  • RV Anatoliy Zhilinskiy
  • RV Atlantida
  • RV Atlantniro
  • RV Atlas
  • RV Bar
  • RV Belomor
  • RV Dalniye Zelentsy
  • RV Dmitriy Ovtsyn
  • RV Dmitry Peskov
  • RV Fritiof Nansen
  • RV Gelendzhik
  • RV Geo Arctic
  • RV Geofizik
  • RV Geolog Dmitriy Nalivkin
  • RV Gidrobiolog
  • RV Grigoriy Mikheyev
  • RV Iskatel-5
  • RV Ivan Kireyev
  • RV Ivan Kruzenshtern
  • RV Ivan Petrov
  • RV Jakov Smirnitskiy
  • RV Kapitan Dranitsyn (1980)
  • RV Kol'skaja
  • RV Mikhail Verbitskiy
  • RV Mirazh
  • RV Pavel Gordienko
  • RV Priboy
  • RV Professor Bogorov
  • RV Professor Gagarinskiy
  • RV Professor Kaganovskiy
  • RV Professor Khromov
  • RV Professor Kurentsov
  • RV Professor Logachev
  • RV Professor Multanovskyi
  • RV Professor Polshkov
  • RV Professor Rjabinkin
  • RV Professor Vodyanitsky
  • RV Professor Shtokman
  • RV Professor Vladimir Kuztensov
  • RV Petr Kottsov
  • RV Rift
  • RV Semyon Dezhnev
  • RV Sergey Kravkov
  • RV Taimyr
  • RV Tor
  • RV Viktor Buynitskiy
  • RV Vladimir Sukhoskiyv
  • RV Vyacheslav Frolov
  • RV Yakov Smirnitskiy
  • RV Yuzhmorgeologiya
  • RV Zapolyarjye

Decommissioned

  • RV Akademik Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (decommissioned)
  • RV Akademik Aleksandr Sidorenko (decommissioned)
  • RV Akademik Korolyov (decommissioned)
  • RV Akademik Kovalevskiy (decommissioned)
  • RV Akademik Kurchatov (decommissioned)
  • RV Akademik Vernadskiy (decommissioned)
  • RV Akvanavt (decommissioned)
  • RV Aleksei Chirikov (decommissioned)
  • RV Amur (decommissioned)
  • RV Andrei Vilkitzky (decommissioned)
  • RV Arktika (decommissioned)
  • RV Artemida (decommissioned)
  • RV Atmosfera (decommissioned)
  • RV Boris Davidov (decommissioned)
  • RV Briz (decommissioned)
  • RV Buran (decommissioned)
  • RV Dmitriy Mendeleev (decommissioned)
  • RV Eduard Tolly (decommissioned)
  • RV Faddey Bellinsgausen (decommissioned)
  • RV Fyodor Matisen (decommissioned)
  • RV Fyodor Litke (decommissioned)
  • RV Gals (decommissioned)
  • RV Gidrolog (decommissioned)
  • RV Gidrofizik (decommissioned)
  • RV Gigrometr (decommissioned)
  • RV Glubina (decommissioned)
  • RV Groza (decommissioned)
  • RV Ikhtiandr (decommissioned)
  • RV Impuls (decommissioned)
  • RV Kompas (decommissioned)
  • RV Leonid Morozov (decommissioned)
  • RV Lugovoe (decommissioned)
  • RV Mangazeya (decommissioned)
  • RV Metan (decommissioned)
  • RV Mikhail Lomonosov (decommissioned)
  • RV Miklukho Maklay (decommissioned)
  • RV Murmanskaja (decommissioned)
  • RV Nikolay Yevgenov (decommissioned)
  • RV Okean (decommissioned)
  • RV Odissey (decommissioned)
  • RV Pamyat Merkuriya (decommissioned)
  • RV Pavel Bashmakov (decommissioned)
  • RV Persey (1922 to 1941, the first Soviet research vessel)
  • RV Pomor (decommissioned)
  • RV Priliv (decommissioned)
  • RV Professor Molchanov (decommissioned)
  • RV Professor Zubov (decommissioned)
  • RV Roumb (decommissioned)
  • RV Shelf (decommissioned)
  • RV Smolensk (decommissioned)
  • RV Tantal (decommissioned)
  • RV Vadim Popov (decommissioned)
  • RV Valentin Shashin (decommissioned)
  • RV Valerian Uryvayev (decommissioned)
  • RV Vityaz (III) (retired)
  • RV Vityaz (IV) (decommissioned)
  • RV Vsevolod Timonov (decommissioned)
  • RV Vulkanolog (decommissioned)
  • RV Yantar (decommissioned)
  • RV Yaroslavets (decommissioned)
  • RV Zenit (decommissioned)

South Africa

S.A. Agulhas II

Survey vessels

  • SAS Protea (A324)

Spain (EU)

File:2019-03-10 01 ESPS BIO HESPIRIDES A33 - IMO 8803563.jpg
BIO Hesperides
RV Sarmiento de Gamboa

Spanish Navy

Spanish National Research Council

Instituto Español de Oceanografía

  • BIO Angeles Alvariño
  • BIO Ramón Margalef

Secretaría General del Mar

  • BIO Miguel Oliver
  • BIO Intermares
  • BIO Emma Bardán

Survey vessels

  • A-23 Antares
  • A-24 Rigel
  • A-31 Malaspina
  • A-32 Tofiño
  • A-91 Astrolabio
  • A-92 Escándalo

Sweden (EU)

File:RV Svea 01.jpg
RV Svea
  • RV Oscar von Sydow (1976)
  • RV Skagerak (1968)
  • RV Skagerak (2017; 2021–present)
  • RV Svea (2019)

Thailand

Department of Marine and Coastal Resources

Tunisia

Turkey

RV Bilim 2

Taiwan (Republic of China)

ROCS Ta Kuan

Taiwan Ocean Research Institute

National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

  • RV Jiangshu (operated by National Dong Hwa University Graduate Institute of Marine Biology)[117]

Republic of China Navy

Ukraine

Noosfera

UAE

  • RV Jaywun (2023)

United Kingdom

RRS Discovery
RV Callista
RRS Sir David Attenborough
RRS James Cook
RV Cefas Endeavour
Royal Navy ocean survey vessel HMS Scott.

Natural Environment Research Council

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

British Antarctic Survey

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Newcastle University

University Marine Biological Station Millport

(London & Glasgow Universities)

Swansea University

Cardiff University

P&O Maritime

(Bangor University)

PEML, University of Liverpool

Marine Scotland

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Environment Agency

(National Marine Service)

Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland

Gardline Geoservices Ltd

Others

Survey vessels

United States

RV Yaquina
NOAAS Ka'Imimana (R-333).
NOAAS Rainier with her namesake, Mount Rainier, in the background.
RV Atlantis
RV Savannah
Oceanographic survey ship USNS Pathfinder.

Florida Institute of Oceanography

  • RV Bellows
  • RV Suncoaster

Oregon State University

Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory

Marine Biological Laboratory

  • RV Gemma

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Moss Landing Marine Laboratories

  • RV John H. Martin
  • RV Point Sur
  • RV Sheila B

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Ocean Alliance

  • RV Odyssey

Schmidt Ocean Institute

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

United States Antarctic Program

United States Coast Guard

  • USCGC Healy (WAGB-20)
  • USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10)

United States Environmental Protection Agency

  • OSV Bold

United States Navy

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Others

Survey vessels

Vietnam

  • Giáo sư-Viện trưởng Trần Đại Nghĩa (2011)

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